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New leader for CtrlAQUA

Norway.- Åsa Espmark is the new Centre Director of CtrlAQUA. She takes over from Bendik Fyhn Terjesen who has headed the Centre from its inception ...

Thailand hides big numbers when it comes to its fish catches in neighbouring waters

USA.- Fish catches by Thailand’s distant-water fleet fishing throughout the Indo-Pacific are almost seven times higher than what the country reports to the Food and ...

First brown shrimp fishery achieves MSC certificate for sustainability

UK.- The North Sea brown shrimp fishery (Crangon crangon) — operating in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands — has achieved MSC certification following a collaboration ...

Supreme Court Rejects Request to Review Commerce’s Authority to Apply High Antidumping Duties in Response to Exporters’ Fraud

USA.- In multiple administrative reviews of the antidumping duty order on Chinese shrimp, the Chinese shrimp producer and exporter Hilltop International provided false information to ...

New procedure for faster detection of environmental impacts from salmon farms

In order to meet the demands for salmon, many salmon farms have developed along the coasts of Scandinavia and Scotland. These operations are governed by ...

Seaweed food packaging could eliminate the need for plastic

Sydney, Australia.- Fish and chip packaging made of seaweed and a documentary about council clean-ups are among projects by UNSW design students at the Australian ...

EU award for Stirling-led aquaculture project

Scotland.- A research project coordinated by the University of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture has received a prestigious award in recognition of its work in the ...

Australia and Vietnam working together to combat illegal fishing

Australia and Vietnam will commence an in-country public information campaign to educate Vietnamese fishers about the consequences of illegally fishing in Australian waters and the ...

International science prize aims to keep shrimp on the menu

UK-Thai scientists have won the Newton Fund Chairman’s Award 2017 to further develop their pioneering research to diagnose disease and protect farmed seafood.

Benchmark participates in gene editing research to develop disease resistance in salmon

UK.- Benchmark, the aquaculture health, nutrition, and genetics business, is pleased to announce its participation in an important gene editing research project. Third party funded ...